Blog categories, masonry layout

Hi Paul,

To have a better understanding of the issue, may you kindly provide the link to the site in question?

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Hope to hear from you soon. :)

here you go (in private).

Hi there,

the Insights page is the the page you have set to Display your Latest Posts in Settings > Reading.
When you apply that setting WordPress completely ignores anything you do in the page editor and instead displays the Blog Template of the Theme.

OK so if i understand correctly you want to exclude a category from the Blog ( insights ) page? If so add this PHP Snippet your site:

function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-66' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

In that code you will see -66 which refers to the Category ID you want to exclude. To get that ID, go to Dashboard > Posts > Category and edit the Post Category you want to exclude, and check the URL in the Browser search field it will say the ID=XX something.

that's great David, and worked. thank you.

next challenge... so for the other page i want with the excluded category of posts shown, how do i get the nice generatepress masonry layout on that page?

As you mentioned above, you simply follow the https://yourdomain.com/category/cat-term URL and that will display the choosen cat-term eg. corporate with masonry.

2 issues:

1) client wants a custom page url for that category (not /category/corporate)
2) the category page shows a title which i don't want.

1. Removing the Category base from the URL.
Give this plugin a shot:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-category-url/

2. Add this PHP Snippet to remove archive titles:

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', function() {
    remove_action( 'generate_archive_title', 'generate_archive_title' );
} );

you. are. awesome.

thanks so much!

You're welcome